When it comes to lunch time at Alaska West, our guests have one of two options; brown bag it for maximum fishing time, or take a little break in the middle of the day for a shore lunch, where your guide prepares a fresh salmon you caught that very morning. Fishing one of the most productive…
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Smoked Salmon at Alaska West
We’re really lucky in that we have a great smoked fish program here at Alaska West. In fact, many of you have asked for a post highlighting our recipe and smoking process, but until now we’ve done a pretty good job at keeping it a secret. However, the secret is out and today our smoke-master…
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Dinner Time!
We might spend our summer in a remote ‘tent lodge‘ in the Alaskan bush, but we eat pretty darn well. Nobody goes hungry at Alaska West, and to make sure we have an age old tradition of signaling dinner time each night with an old-school dinner bell. We look forward to that sweet sound each night,…
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Hydro Flask Travel Mug – Review
Are you part of the 83 percent of adults in the U.S. who like to start their day with a cup of coffee? Or, perhaps part of the 51 percent of Americans who drink tea on a daily basis? (Sorry, our diligent team of researchers could only find U.S. statistics). If so, odds are you don’t…
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Friday Cookouts at Andros South
We like great fishing as much as the next guy, heck, that’s how we chose the locations of our lodges! However, we also think that a great fishing trip is about the whole experience as well, not just the fishing. That’s why we started a bit of a tradition this year at Andros South; Friday…
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Fresh Seafood
We like fresh seafood, and have a feeling you might too.. In fact, we get asked all the time by our guests at Andros South whether or not we serve fresh seafood. South Andros is surrounded by a practically untouched marine environment absolutely loaded with grouper, snapper, crawfish (lobster), dorado, conch and more. There’s no need to…
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Aeropress Coffee Maker
We’re all about roughing it, but one luxury we’d rather not live without is good strong coffee. A hot cup of coffee is God sent on a cool day on the water, and we make sure to make it part of our program each day. There are a lot of good coffee making options today for the…
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Alaska West Mini Gallery – Shore Lunch Style
Today we’re coming at you with a gallery of photos highlighting one of the most underrated parts of any fishing trip.. Lunch time! Fresh Alaskan salmon is amazing anywhere in the world, but it doesn’t get better than when cooked riverside over a wood fire. Add good friends, great fishing, and maybe a mid-day nap,…
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How to Fillet Salmon
Speed Fillets We fillet a lot of fish at Alaska West. We allow our guests to take home up to 50 pounds of fish that they catch during their week with us. We vacuum pack and freeze all of the fish before it’s boxed up and sent with the angler on the flight home. The…
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Smoked Fish
Many of our guests know this, but we have a great smoked fish program at Alaska West. We believe it is a combination of multiple things – the chrome bright fish we catch, the combination of hardwoods we use for smoking, the perfect combination of sweet and salty brine we use, and getting those fresh…
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